You couldn't make this shit up.Registered gun owners in Arizona and Tennessee now have the right (and I use that word loosely) to have concealed firearms on their person in bars or restaurants that serve booze.
Please feel free to read that again and wonder if someone in legislative power has not lost their freaking mind.
"YEEHAR! I'm gonna' shoot me some coon or beaner but not not until I've downed these nine beers and hit my kids for being toothless, dumb, cracker bits of shit!"
Guns aren't a great idea in the first place and why America has a problem with the consistent and painful mis-reading of the Second Amendment I've no idea, clearly many, many people have no fucking clue as to what a militia is. Far too many asshats take that to mean that each individual is a militia and you can stock up with all the weapons you want. Whatever...
Well now you can arm yourself and get so drunk you can't feel your hands, before firing some rounds from your cannon.
Seriously, the US has been stricken with shootings, three massacres this year alone and rights for gun owners just seems to get more and more liberal (in the worse sense) so that soon, we may face total deregulation.
As a footnote, it seems one area the NRA is not having much joy is the right to carry concealed firearms on university campuses, no idea why that's proving a hard sell, it's not as if America has had lots of shootings in educational environments...
Oh wait!
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"YEEHAR! I'm gonna' shoot me some coon or beaner but not not until I've downed these nine beers and hit my kids for being toothless, dumb, cracker bits of shit!" -
Actually, a concealed carry permit holder is not allowed to drink at all in the bar if they are carrying. They lose their permit if they do. The bar can post a sign next to their license prohibiting weapons and a permit holder must abide by that.
The real problem is that routine issuance of concealed weapons permits requires everyone else to just assume anyone with a pistol is legal. How often can you see someone packing and call the cops? You will very quickly acquire a new friend who wants to go hunting with you, so he can Cheney you.
While guns are evil, etc. is a wonderful argument and before 19th October 2008 I would agree with you wholeheartedly, there's something very attractive about being armed and having the right to defend your property from those who want to take it away from you.
If the laws of America had been applied to this fair isle just for ten minutes at 3.15am on 19th October 2008, there would have been two dead coons (your parlance, not mine) at my feet and a smoking gun. The police would have patted me on my head and thanked me for doing my civil duty for taking these ne'er-do-wells out of circulation.
But alas, we live in pissy Britain where law and order no longer exists and if you are a scumbag you can pretty well do what you want until the rozzers finally wake up and feel your collar. But then there's no real chance that you'll get a sentence, unless you do something really like drop an empty crisp packet on the floor. Gah!
Give me the guns and I'll show you justice!!!
(Sorry, had a really shit day)
Bud:
thanks for that, spoils my joke but means I'm more educated on the facts.
Darren:
I must confess, I read you comment and winched a bit, but I know you've had a hard time of it.
Guns ain't the answer to your worries though comrade.
One of my favourite captions in the Onion: "4 Year Old Exercises 2nd Amendment Right." above a photo of a child with a gun and a shot child.
I never understood the obsession with guns. I guess it is a cultural thing. All I know is that all other countries are doing very well without them!
Ellie:
It won't be long, America seems to swing closer to satire the longer it goes on.
Mohamed:
Indeed, but the cultural premise is a flawed one I think.
If a burglar comes into my house in the dead of night, I should have the right to blow his fucking head off. A country in which the citizens are completely disarmed and the state has a monopoly of force is not a free country. Switzerland is piled high with guns and yet you don't hear about many schools shootings. Before the 1920s this country had no restriction on guns and you didn't hear about any school shootings. You know why? because guns aren't the problem. The problem is immoral people. You have to be an immoral person to pull a trigger on an innocent person.
Besides if campuses allowed students that carried guns the maniacs might have been apprehended. So that argument is a load of bollocks.
Hi Evelyn, thanks for stopping by.
I must say that it's clear you're a fan of guns and seem pretty determined to justify their use no matter what the situation or how terrible the implications.
As for the right to shoot someone else dead, violence begets violence, an increase in people carrying guns means an increase in the use of guns.
As for your definition of a free country, sorry I don't buy it, that's all a bit uni-bomber for my liking.
As for immoral people being the problem rather than guns, perhaps but best to keep guns out of untrained hands full stop, because even in trained hands they are a deadly and mistake laden thing.
Immoral and innocent by the way are moot points open to judgement with too much subjectivity in them for my mind.
As for the disgusting logic that if students are allowed to be armed on campus, university shooting could be stopped, I can see now why the NRA has so much success because if idiot logic like that cuts the mustard, perhaps some people deserve to get shot.
If a burglar comes into my house in the dead of night, I should have the right to blow his fucking head off.
You can try. But you'd more likely already be dead. If I was a burglar and I knew you were heavily armed, my first action would be to eliminate the threat (i.e. you). Shouldn't be that hard really, since I would be prepared for just that situation, and can attack at a time of my choosing. Sooner or later you'll have to sleep. Or are you running an armed camp with lookouts and 24/7 guards on duty? Even then, will your walls withstand ordnance?
A country in which the citizens are completely disarmed and the state has a monopoly of force is not a free country.
Which freedom is missing? The freedom to shoot anyone you choose? Or the freedom to swagger around with your six guns? In places where guns are completely banned, anyone found with one is usually shot on sight by the police. There is no need to ask if they have a permit then.
Switzerland is piled high with guns and yet you don't hear about many schools shootings.
That's because everyone of military age has a rifle, but only a small number of bullets that they have to account for. They don't see them yodeling in the mountains and firing off rounds for emphasis.
Before the 1920s this country had no restriction on guns and you didn't hear about any school shootings.
That's because you have already decided your position and won't look at contrary information. Guns before the 1920s were WWI vintage, bulky and inaccurate. In the 1920s, the preferred method of school killings was bombs.
You know why? because guns aren't the problem. The problem is immoral people. You have to be an immoral person to pull a trigger on an innocent person.
And if you don't have a gun you'll be able to do a lot less damage before you are put in the loony bin.
Besides if campuses allowed students that carried guns the maniacs might have been apprehended.
Which maniacs? The school killers? The ones wearing Kevlar vests and carrying Uzis? Should the students carry Uzis too? Or perhaps the students should all carry flame throwers, maybe they can stop the school killer with the bazooka.
Or perhaps you are referring to the concealed carry maniacs who shoot kids for their ipods? How many CCW carriers are involved in "accidents" or shoot someone "because I thought he was drawing"?
You see, whatever level of arms you think everyone should carry, the bad guys can always get a bigger one. Then you have exactly the same situation as today, except escalated so minor mistakes result in a lot more dead.
So that argument is a load of bollocks.
No, your argument fails, because you think arming everyone will make things different. It will only make mistakes and altercations more deadly. For every kid that used to go home with a bloody nose, now you'll have one shot dead and another with gunshot wounds.
Bud, I love you mate.
;-)
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